Except for the newbies with bright eyes who are flooding the microstock sites with unimpressive content some "veteran" stock stockers I know are finding a way out.

I started to shoot for local businesses mainly interior, headshots, food and commercial products etc. and had made $10,000 since late august last year. I leverage the photography experience I've gained from shooting stock. Haven't had much time for stock since then. Average job is around $200.

"When everybody is looking one way perhaps it's time to look another way" - Confucius.

At the moment whatever I upload via Deepmeta becomes royal free images. I want to start to submit editorial files and how do I specify them as editorial files? I can't see there is a selection for it in Deepmeta.

Anyone has problem in seeing their Alamy sales page displaying?

Filling Fotolia categories are getting to be time-consuming.

To start with the categories offered are not comprehensive and there are limited choices to select from.

For the past two months I've noticed that whether by using upload by browser or FTP all my submitted files will disappear after I press submit. They don't appear in Pending.

It seems like such a waste of time.

I coundn't withdraw money form DT today. I did it twice nothing happened. The old amount was still the same there and I received no email notification.

Is it a holidays in the states? 

http://www.microstockposts.com/yuri-arcurs-drops-microstock-and-goes-with-getty/

We have found a good distribution partner (Getty Images) for the kind of content we produce. We will be removing all images from microstock doing the next few weeks. Microstock, especially subscription sites, are not suited for the kind of high production cost images we produce.

At last the common sense of not flying a group of gorgeous models to an exotic island staying in a 4 stars hotel and sell the photos for $1 has prevailed.

This is going to be good for stock photography as a whole.

Newly approved files not appearing in SS?

Anyone notices it since yesterday?

Looks like a few microstock shooters have found out about their images appearing in a low budget stock easyfotostock by an agency called Kalium.

Please check and see whether your images are there.

RM is a green field with still untapped potentials for microstockers. Some microstock sites are making an inroad into it. It is less competitive than RF files which are reaching saturation.

How are you fairing in RM?

Processing of uploaded files doesn't seem to be working in CanStock for the past week.

All uploaded files are just sitting in Filezilla waiting for The Awakening.

Are DT servers having Easter break too?  

I have been using a 10MP camera for years.

With everything equal e.g. subjects, lighting, composition etc. would I be able to make more money by upgrading to a 18MP camera?

One obvious disadvantage I see is slowing down uploading time with larger files.

A few of my friends are istock exclusive shooters using 21MP cameras. They told me they rarely sold files of such size in istock. But one of them said 21MP files give him better ranking in istock.